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Let Food Be Your Medicine…:
More good news, my little easter bunnies! Yet another excuse to eat the world’s most popular sweet; as if you needed one.
So, our nutritional-research Hero Dr. Georgie Crichton & her intrepid team went back and examined a study called the MSLS on what people ate and drank over time.
And they found an interesting correlation between food and smarts.
One that worked -even after- factoring out many confounding variables…
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And as a great companion video to the Vsauce post, ASAPScience asks if we can improve not our Strength or Speed, but our Intelligence through genetic means, and what people are already doing about it.
The core of their idea is based on The Cognitive Genomics Project, Big Data & Gene Therapy…
In this video, VSauce gets into the DNA-Techy meat of the most serious self-improvement question imaginable:
Forget the Deepak Chopra Aisle at the Barnes & Noble, -Can we make ourselves better or even Superhuman by using genetic alterations like in the game BioShock?
Well, the Michael Stevens-less host Jake Roper goes on with a little help from ASAPScience to ask those questions and find the supporting research on things like Speed, Strength and Smarts.
Typical Vsauce kookiness, and Worth a watch…
the original list of 77 different approaches to help learning and expand your mind was simply Fantastic.
A hard act to follow.
But nevertheless, Halie Hartman at OEDB.org was nice enough to let us in on their new summitting Everest attempt of ~86(?) brain, study, & productivity ideas & reminders over at the site.
It shares several commonalities with the previous one, and just like it, each entry has at least one link associated with it…
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It’s probably something similar to the research showing both black and green tea affect enzymes involved in Alzheimer’s,
but Yun Bai and his team at the Third Military Medical University in China have found that the chief polyphenol in Green Tea, called EGCG, helps new brain cells grow in a central region crucial to the brain’s ability to adapt to change.
+and also navigate mazes…
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According to a recent study, gum can actually improve your concentration and performance on intensive thinking tasks.
Bad news? -It only lasts for 20 minutes at a time.
It seems as if the studiers didn’t think of trying to replicate the performance-bump with 20 minutes of chewing every 1,2,3, etc. hours to see what the smallest-recovery-interval could be…
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